All Over Red Rover

As the dust settles on an eventful week in Nelson, the Kākāpō students will be looking back on an exciting week with many fears conquered and challenges faced. It was a great week that was 'non-stop' from go to wo. All students and adults seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves and we will be sharing some of that enjoyment on the Kākāpō 2012 blogsite over the next two weeks.
A huge THANK YOU is owed to many... I will endeavour to list the various groups and people who helped make this camp possible and enjoyable:

• Vai Lui and Judy Campion organised and applied for grant board funding respectively;
• Hutt Mana Charitable Trust;
• Pelorus Trust;
• Pub Charity;
• Angela Coffey and Vanessa Tavite for assisting with fundraising organisation;
• All parents who ran or assisted fundraising events from Balloon Buddies to Lotto raffles to Harry Potter and everything in between;
• Parents who were able to join us on camp - Brent Pritchard, Keith Stevens, Jason Pahina, Angela Cameron and Cath Fitzgerald;
• Paul, Carey and Alisha from Teapot Valley Christian Camp - who ran a fantastic camp;
• Henry from the Interislander who looked after us to and from Picton;
• Keith the Bus Driver; 
• Smitty and the creww from the Abel Tasman Sea Shuttle;
• All parents who gave their children everything they needed for camp (including the Camp Fee!), and the love and preayers to bring everyone home safely; and finally...
• All the Kākāpō students who took up the challenge to GO BEYOND in every possible way on camp.

We will be working on our camp books for a few weeks and will invite parents to share our camp experiences with us in due course.

Until then...

Camp next week.....

Kia Ora Tatou,
I hope you all have a restful weekend - getting prepped for camp 2012 - We will have a great time. Here is a copy of the notice that went out today... feel free to leave a message on the blog if you have a question and no other means of communicating with Miss D or I.

Here is the link to the TVCC site

Absolute Final Camp Reminder

1.    All students must be at school in the hall by 6:40am Monday. Set alarms now!!!

2.    All students are to wear their full PE gear on Monday. This includes blue shorts, SHP PE top and sports socks.

3.    All students are to bring a packed morning tea and lunch for Monday, including water bottle.

4.    Please make sure clothing is suitable for camp activities.

5.    Pick up from school on Friday is between 6:15-6:45 pm.

6.    If you want to keep track of the great things that we are doing please check out our class blog. We will be updating it daily with lots of photos.

www.kakapo2012.blogspot.com.

Have a good weekend. See you MONDAY 6:40am

 

Ping pong / Table Tennis

Not quite sure why the players say Kakapokapoakapokapokakapokakapokakapo half way through but it must be a sign  for Kākāpō kids to gain innovative and creative inspiration from this short clip...

FINAL CAMP UPDATE NOTICE (possibly)

FINAL CAMP UPDATE NOTICE (possibly)

Thank you to all parents who turned up to our meeting this week or have since been in contact with me. It is great that we are only a few short days away! Here are a few reminders and some important information that needs to be kept in a safe place:

·      In case you need to get in contact with one of the staff please call the following cell numbers:

o   Chris 027 7536739

o   Kath 021 0545817

o   Liz 027 7536739

·      The number for Teapot Valley Christian Camp is 03 542-3368

·      ‘Other’ electronic devices not listed on the camp kit list are also not permitted – (eg: hair dryers / hair straighteners etc.)

·      The medications box is in Chris and Kath’s office. Students are asked to bring named items into school with precise instructions for use next week. This can include ‘sea legs’ pills (please bear in mind that we will be travelling on a ferry four times).

·      All students have been given a 1B5 exercise book for their camp work. This needs to be covered by next Monday with clear Duraseal (students are designing their own cover page). If you do not have any duraseal – there will be a limited supply in the classroom.

·      CORRECTION >>> The time that the Ferry arrives in Wellington is 5:35pm.    We will arrive at school between 6:15 and 6:45pm on FRIDAY 24^th Feb.

If you have any questions please feel free to get in contact,

Regards

Chris Theobald, Liz Heatley and Kath Delahunty

Count Down to Camp!

Here are some images of Teapot Valley. While we are on camp we will hopefully be posting some images of what we have been up to - or at least a sentence or two depending on how tired we are!

Make sure all whanau check in while we are away.